The Animation Guild, now 5000+ members strong, has new blood at the top ...
... including 10 new members of its executive board. Steve Kaplan, running unopposed, recently was elected business rep, and Jeanette Moreno King, the local’s former veep, was elected president. Jason MacLeod, the local’s former business rep, did not seek reelection.
A total of 912 ballots were cast, representing 24% of the guild’s eligible membership. Founded in 1952, the Animation Guild represents more than 5,000 artists, writers and technicians in the animation industry. ...
The Animation Guild has always covered a lot of ground in its representation of industry employees, everyone from animation checkers to directors to story artists, writers and animators.
In the late 1980s it had a grand total of 700 active members. It has evolved over almost seven decades of existence. It used to be a world apart from live-action guilds and locals under the IATSE umbrella; now it occupies a space that has steadily grown closer to other labor unions in the motion picture industry. The product its membership creates is among the most profitable that the entertainment business turns out (only "super hero" movies seriously compete).
Animation's technologies have changed radically since the Guild started in 1952, but at its core, it's pretty much the same: a story-driven medium that relies heavily on the visual to punch its content across.
It should be noted that you Steve for so many years did an outstanding job as the business rep for the Guild. Your service to our industry was at times under appreciated and misunderstood. We all owe you a great debt of gratitude for your years of service. I thank you.
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